Thread: Saddest Anime/Manga You Watched/Read...:'(

I went into full-blown Heroic BSOD mode while watching Clannad.

I have to stop watching after

a certain somebody dies

and cried for a whole hour and a half before i could contain myself and continue watching and crying.
I think I spent the whole last half of the second season sobbing.

And yet it's one of the best anime ever, but you have to be a serious masochist to keep watching.

EVERY SINGLE TIME

Tomoya cried

I would pause, wail, and then keep going.

Clannad After Story. Clannad After Story. Clannad After Story. Clannad After Story. Clannad After Story.

Oh my god, I cannot say it enough. That anime was by far, one of the saddest and most emotion-wrenching anime I've ever watched.

The way that it builds up Tomoya's and Nagisa's relationship and then... then... Nagisa DIES. I was depressed for like about 2 days after watching that. ;___; It killed me. And the fact that Ushio died later on did not help. ;-;

The ending of K-ON was also pretty sad, but the extra episodes that followed the finale eased the sadness. There was also Ginban Kaleidoscope. I felt pretty sad after that ending...

But yeah:

Originally Posted by Chromas

Clannad: After Story. [/THREAD]

Definitely Clannad After Story, I have never cried so much at an anime.

The end of Angel Beats! made me cry and Bokurano.

In Bokurano all but one of the main characters end up dying during the course of the series.

Clannad made me cry tears of happiness :3 But also there were very sad parts that got me too!

Michiko to Hatchin made me cry quite a bit during some of the episodes, and that happened a few times while I watched Kuchu Buranko. So I say those anime until I watch a few more different series.

Originally Posted by Adamant

I was going to say something about being incredibly unoriginal with my Grave of the Fireflies pick, but it seems I'm the first to mention that?

Either way, that.

Yeah, I came here expecting to see a lot of Grave of the Fireflies mentions as well. Definitely the saddest one that I've seen.

The anime I watch have some sad parts, but they're spread out.

Not really "sad," per se, but the ending of Death Note reminded me of a Shakespearean tragedy. No one really got a happy ending.

End of K-on!! gave me a few tears cause of Azu-nyan...

I think every episode of Madoka after episode 3 found a way for me to want to bawl my eyes out.

Originally Posted by Negaishipping

Air

^Could Easily rival Clannad probably cause of the way

Mizuzu dies

THANK YOU! Honestly, I find Clannad just a little over-rated. Also, it's ending was trash...

Aside from Key seemingly heaping on the tragedies just for the hell of it, they pressed a huge-ass reset button anyway. I found AIR to be handled much better, and its ending wasn't near so convenient (though it still provided a glimmer of hope).

I'm also going with the recent AnoHana, since it really seems like something anyone should relate to. Now granted, I don't recall building a secret base with friends, or having both a girlfriend and a parent die on me around the same time (hell, I never even lost a grandparent until half a year after I graduated high school), but it does kinda get to me in the way it portrays the passage of time along with the idea that we can never go back to our childhoods (though we can at least try to remember what made it so great).

Elfen Lied.

It was such a short anime I couldnt explain anything without giving the entire story away.

It just bursts me into tears everytime I re-watch it.

Bokurano is the only anime I've dropped for being too sad. And, well, "pilot a mech and die from lack of energy, if you don't the world is destroyed" is pretty bleak. I could take that, but when I found out what happens when they *win* I just stopped.

Samurai 7 is one of the saddest Animes I've ever seen,

If you haven't watched the series until the end, don't click this.

Are you sure you want to continue? Bad things happen...

You asked for it...

Four of the seven samurai die in battle, Gorobei is the first to die in episode 16 from gunfire.
Heihachi dies second in episode 25 after getting shot when setting up bombs. With a bit of energy left, he hits the detonation button and gets crushed by two huge iron bars.
Kyuuzou dies third after getting accidentally shot by Katsushiro.
Kikuchiyo sacrifices himself for the safety of Kanna Village.

Bokurano and AnoHana. Yerp.

Also, Tiger & Bunny is sad in a really awkward sense. At first, I was like, "Oh superheroes. Nostalgia, yay. <3" But that anime, especially in recent episodes, has reduced me to tears.